Questions with (probably) no answers.

[tree_and_leaf]

Why does the Flair application at Facebook seem to be dominated by Twilight readers, Ten/ Rose shippers and evangelical Christians?

And do these categories overlap?

Comments

[mrstater.livejournal.com]

LOL I don't know, but it does seem like that, doesn't it? I'm just glad my Evangelical Christian in-laws haven't sent me any of the Evangelical Flair crap they all post...

[rivrea.livejournal.com]

May I inquire what on Earth a Flair application is?

(Can you tell that I'm still resisting the lure of Facebook?)

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

Nope, cause I'm on Farcebook and have no idea either!

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

I've only read the first two Twilight books and I can't exactly see how the two categories overlap, for what that's worth. It might just be coincidence. I do feel rather bad for how much I'm enjoying the books since they're really not very well written. Somehow they're horribly addictive.

[tree_and_leaf]

It's an add on where people can make and upload 'buttons' showing pictures reflecting their interests (in that respect, it's like lj icons, and indeed I've seen some images turn up on both); you can search for and gack what's been uploaded, too, and either put them on your own profile, or send them to other people. Pointless but fun.

One way of finding them is to look at the 'most popular' page, which at the moment seems to have a rather high proportion of Twilight related stuff, and also of - IMO - nauseating Evangelical Christian stuff, sometimes with a strong 'true love waits, but being a housewife is your divinely appointed destiny!' undertone (er, maybe I'm overreacting). Or along 'I like boys who like Jesus' lines. The most mind-boggling one I've seen recently was 'Dance with God, he'll let the perfect man cut in', though the fact that I've adopted 'dancing' and 'flexible dancer' as a euphemism didn't exactly help.... (still, what's the subtext? God is all very well until your husband comes along?)

I went looking for Doctor Who flair yesterday during an odd moment, and it was virtually all Ten/ Rose - virtually no other companions, shippy or not, and a vanishingly small proportion of badges relating to Old Who. I suppose it's demographics - combine the fact that it's mostly under twenty-five, and mostly American...

[tree_and_leaf]

I saw "Dance with God, He'll let the perfect man cut in" yesterday, which.... worries me, in more than one respect.

[tree_and_leaf]

I think it must have something to do with demographics, pure and simple.

I do feel rather bad for how much I'm enjoying the books since they're really not very well written. Somehow they're horribly addictive.


I haven't looked at them, but it sounds a bit like the adictiveness of certain kinds of badfic..

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

the adictiveness of certain kinds of badfic
That's it exactly - at least if you're not of the age and personality to genuinely swoon over romance with sparkly vampires. The "so bad it's good AND entertaining" book is all too rare, but the Twilight books really are.